In a May 22, 2011 This Week roundtable about the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the alleged sexual assault of a female hotel worker, journalists Elaine Sciolino and Cokie Roberts endorsed it as France’s “Anita Hill moment,” referring to last-minute claims raised against conservative Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas nearly 20 years ago. But the public at the time sided with Thomas over Hill by a nearly two-to-one margin.
